THE N W YORKER this quarry must have wrecked its un- derground course. G ERTR.PDE LOOMIS, now that her mind is nearly gone, is evidently a lTIOre serious problelTI than Florence was. She is always hiding things and wandering out for walks alone. The other day, in her nightgown and dress- ing gown, she walked to T alcottville down the middle of the road and called on the people, whom she did not know, now living in Carrie Trennam's house. She seems to have developed an antago- nisn1 to Huldah, but when Gertrude broke her leg last winter and had to be away in the hospital, Huldah says, she was lonely without her. Huldah her- self, although now rather deaf and al- though her eyes are failing, is still quite clear in her head and able to cope with the situation. I SOMETIMES feel that nowa- days-eating, sleeping, and working in the same room-I am living like an anin1al in a den. B OB WEILER has a badly mangled hand, which was caught in a ma- chine at the mill, and a rib or two were broken in a car accident But he is able to push a lawnmower, and has now at last, at the end of the summer, man- - aged beautifull} to weed out my place, to which up to now this year I have been rather inattentive. He has bunched the Showy Ladyslippers in front of the house. The ones behind were not doing well. E I ENA has told me over the phone that Helen had a bad car accident in Maine, where she has been going to d Skow hegan art schooL A car in front of her stopped suddenly without giving d signal, and she was thrown through the windshield, cutting a great gash in her head that almost went through her skull. Twenty-three stitches were tak- en. Her car was completely smashed, the one in front merely dented. The stitches were eventually taken out, but the gash can be concealed only by doing her hair so as to cover it. T HE pretty old rounded maplL across the road in front of the house is beginning to turn with au- tumn. A reddish-orange patch has ap- peared In the middle and will spread to the rest of the tree. It is going to be cut down to make room for the new road, and this may be the last time I shall see it. -EDMUND WILSON (ThIs is the second part of a two-part artie/e.) 83 What a deal! Kenneth J. Lane s poker chip earrings stack up in a full house of different colors to suit every summer thing you own I To change colors, iust slip the chip from its nugget-bright clip. Clips plus chips in lacquer red, navy, amber, white, iet and iade, all in a slick black cylinder with Kenny's /"'.. signature, 20.00 complete / Add 1.25 outside regular delivery area Jewelry Bonwit Teller Fifth Avenue at 56th Street, New York and all stores """ 1'. < t :c::t " .,."..,.""""""'.........'-'- (f:,---' , þ ,, , ... < ..-.,...,. \ ' ,, .. . t/ f'? - " - '- .. - A'.:, '., <t '( .- . '. .- . ..... f f -. , .. -.. / A cure for the blue ink blues: From Mark Cross, the 4..color pen, $15. ^ !l f .,:. '; 1/ I / 1/ I ; ._.- -:' -..- / %- , '" , I .. ,,{ ( t I . ; / j- I / 1/ I, ( .. , ( ? I, I / I f ( I ..' <, Put colo . , rin yo _ ur wri . tin . g . .Clìck it and change .. your style from blue to green.1 red or black. In II / a sterling silver case f $15. To order, write Mark 1 :., Cross, 5th Ave at 55th St" N.Y..C., or phone (212) [ , 421-3000. (Add 80 postage beyond delivery area.) ! " .:- t ".401 ".,...10. . .-.- , .... .. .... .:..0.... . ..- u ' '" fÆ . MARK cRoss New York/San Francisco/Beverly Hills/ Atlanta/TroYJ Mich./Bal Harbour.' Fla /Houston u